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Jared Bernhardt ’21 on Saturday was named the winner of the 2021 Tewaaraton Award, which recognizes the best male and female collegiate lacrosse players. He led Maryland to one of the program's greatest campaigns in its 96-season history, as the Terrapins advanced to the national championship game, captured the Big Ten regular-season and tournament titles and won 15 straight games.
Following the university’s recent announcement that it is lifting COVID-19 campus restrictions to align with federal, state and county public health guidelines, the Division of Research today announced changes in UMD research operations.
A project led by a UMD student won the prize for “Most Collaborative” in this year’s Universitas21 (U21) RISE Showcase and Awards. FundEd, created by Shubham Mittal ’24, a computer engineering major, was one of five projects chosen from 55 nominated from across U21’s international network of 27 prominent research universities to receive a $2,000 award.
University of Maryland students hit all of the right notes at last month’s 2021 International Competition of Collegiate A Cappella. Students from Faux Paz, the university’s premier all-gender a cappella group, took home first place honors, as well as special awards for “Outstanding Soloist” and “Outstanding Choreography” at the world’s largest a cappella competition.
The University of Maryland has been selected to be part of the Center for First-Generation Student Success’ First-Gen Forward and First Scholars programs, which recognize and connect institutions committed to the advancement of first-generation college students.
The Maryland football team will play its 2021 home game against Iowa on Friday, Oct. 1 at Capital One Field at Maryland Stadium, Maryland Athletics announced today. This will mark the third consecutive year that the Terps host a Friday night game.
If you have two wheels too many crowding the garage or shed, the Department of Transportation Services (DOTS) will take that old bike off your hands through May 31—and come next semester, you might just see a gussied-up version of it crossing campus under the power of a new owner.
A government and politics major with a long resume of service to UMD and her local community was named the Omicron Delta Kappa Society’s Gen. Russell E. Dougherty National Leader of the Year—its highest collegiate honor. The award comes with a $4,000 prize.
College of Education Professor Laura Stapleton will serve as interim dean of the College of Education, effective Aug. 11, Interim Senior Vice President and Provost Ann G. Wylie announced today.
The No. 1-ranked and undefeated Maryland men’s lacrosse team advanced to its 27th NCAA semifinals, rallying to defeat sixth-seeded Notre Dame, 14-13, in overtime in South Bend, Ind., on Sunday.
The University of Maryland Libraries and Georgia State University Library are embarking on a three-year project to digitize records on the labor movement’s ties to the civil rights movement. The project, “Advancing Workers Rights in the American South,” is funded by a $350,000 grant from the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR).
The Office of Diversity and Inclusion invites the campus community to meet the three finalists for the position of ADA/504 coordinator. As the university works to be a more inclusive campus, this position will be important in ensuring the coordination and development of ongoing efforts for ADA compliance management.
If you’re attending Commencement on Friday, how about arriving by bike? (Just don’t get your gown tangled in the chain.) That’s the day commuters and bike riders across the Washington, D.C., area are encouraged to get on their two wheels as part of Bike to Work Day, coordinated by the Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments.
The University of Maryland today issued updated travel guidance that allows essential and non-essential university-related out-of-state travel, but maintained restrictions on international travel.
Poet, lawyer and activist Reginald Dwayne Betts ’09 has been named one of Fortune magazine’s “World’s 50 Greatest Leaders.” Last year, in conjunction with The Andrew Mellon Foundation and Yale Law School, Betts launched the Million Book Project, which brings books to prisons and juvenile detention centers in the United States.
With COVID-19 vaccination mandatory for all employees and students returning regularly to campus for the Fall 2021 semester, the University of Maryland yesterday released guidelines to help international students, faculty and scholars comply with requirements.
The University of Maryland has joined TOME (Toward an Open Monograph Ecosystem), a national initiative to advance open-access publishing of monographs in the humanities and social sciences. TOME aims to make important long-form scholarship available to readers across the globe, without cost and permission barriers, by creating a system in which academic institutions subsidize the publication of open-access books.
The Quantum Technology Center (QTC) at the University of Maryland has received $1.5 million to study quantum diamond magnetometers in collaboration with Commonwealth Fusion Systems (CFS), a Massachusetts Institute of Technology spin-off commercializing fusion energy.
A University of Maryland researcher is leading a team examining the mysteries of embryonic and newborn chickens—a project that could improve poultry production and benefit both animal and human health. Supported by a $500,000 award from the National Institute of Food and Agriculture, Nishanth E. Sunny, assistant professor of animal and avian sciences, is studying a transition that occurs in the first week after hatch, when chickens undergo a dramatic metabolic switch, from the fat-rich diet the embryos grow in to a high-carbohydrate diet.
Lizzie Colson, a redshirt senior on the Terps’ women’s lacrosse team, was unanimously named the Big Ten Defender of the Year, the conference announced on Monday.
The President’s Awards Advisory Committee is seeking nominations for two categories of awards to be conferred at Faculty and Staff Convocation on Sept. 15: the President’s Medal, and the President’s Distinguished Service Awards.
The university's first annual Memorial Celebration will honor the lives of Maryland students, faculty, emeriti faculty and staff members lost over the last year in a hybrid in-person and virtual event from 2:30-3 p.m. Thursday, May 6.
The College Park Metro Station, along with the stations at Prince George’s Plaza and Greenbelt, will close this coming Saturday and Sunday for platform reconstruction work, the Washington Metro Area Transit Authority (WMATA) announced.
Maryland women’s golf head coach Diana Cantu has been named the Big Ten Women's Coach of the Year, the conference announced on Wednesday. This marks the first of her career, as well as the first for the women's golf program.
A University of Maryland (UMD) postdoctoral researcher is one author of a new large-scale study examining the genetic diversity of mangroves over more than 1,800 miles of coastline in the Western Indian Ocean, including Eastern Africa and several islands. Until now, little work has been done classifying and highlighting genetic diversity in African mangrove populations for conservation.
University of Maryland President Darryll J. Pines sent the following email to the campus community today: While we continue to see promising numbers in the decline of COVID cases in the state of Maryland, this pandemic continues to cause human suffering across the country and world, and we must not let our guard down.
In a new report, an international panel of experts on police use of force that included a University of Maryland researcher called for increased legal accountability, as well as enhanced training and more mental health treatment for officers. Joseph Richardson, the Joel and Kim Feller Endowed Professor of African American Studies and Anthropology and acting chair of the Department of African American Studies, was one of the panelists.
A team of University of Maryland students and recent alums is one of 10 groups worldwide selected in a design competition centered on a remote property owned by the nonfprofit that stages the annual Burning Man festival, where the Terps plan to build a self-sustaining “eco-restoration base.”
University of Maryland researchers now have access to the Open Science Framework (OSF), an online research management and collaboration platform from the Center for Open Science, the University of Maryland Libraries and the Division of Research announced.
Vice President for Student Affairs Patty Perillo sent the following email to the campus community today: We have been actively cultivating potential partnerships for vaccine administration. We now have the opportunity to have more than 3,000 additional community members vaccinated on campus next week.
The No. 1 Maryland men’s lacrosse team captured its fifth regular-season Big Ten championship with an 18-8 win over No. 12 Ohio State on Sunday evening at Capital One Field at Maryland Stadium.
As the last weeks of the semester approach, students are encouraged to review their grading method selections for each course to ensure they are accurate. The deadline to make final grading method selections is the last day of the class.
A team of University of Maryland researchers has been awarded a grant from the Appalachian Regional Commission (ARC) to spend the next six months developing a plan to help residents recovering from substance use disorder return to work in Western Maryland.
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